The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —_—_-_—_ THE DAILY HERALD, published every many, Hungary, Turkey and other minor En- | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- gual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hapary. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ‘LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX No. 204 — AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING and Houston . between streete.— BNeTes as P w: at 10:45 P.M. Mr. Josep! Wheelock ani Miss lone burke. piss rT i WEALTH AND ' ener Thi st oad J PRIME, ae2 Pes clo 30 ROPED IN, at 8 3 Closes at 4:30 P. P.M; closes at 10:40 P, M. Mr. Harry Clittord. METROPOLIT. @ broadway.—Parisian Can TONY PASTOR’S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery.—VARISTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M.; | ‘loses at 10:30 P. M. HEATRE, in Daucers, at 8 P.M =a } CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ‘Finy-ninth street and Seventh ayenue.—THOMAS? CON. CERT, at 8 P.M. : closes at ly:30 P.M, cole Broadway, corner of thir SIOMT. at TP M.: closes at closes at 10 P.M. oe ROMA La in avenue Free ecoNGRES at7 P.M. TRIPLE § Tharsday, Jaly 23, t.—LONDON BY | i. Stree! M. came at7P. M.; M. HIPPODROME, | Swenty-sixth ‘street.—GRAND | OF NATIONS, at 1:20 P. M. and 1874, New York, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To NewspraLers aNp THE PUBLIC: — The New York Heratp will run a special | | whe European Requirements. | Great Britain has been, among all the coun- tries of the world, the largest importer of cereal | products, Her supplies have been usually | drawn very largely from Russiz, France, Ger- ropean exporting countries. In 1873 there were deficient cereal crops in Europe, while in America they were abundant. In the crop year 1872-3 Great Britain imported about 100,000,000 bushels of wheat, and her esti- mated requirements for the crop year from | September 1, 1873, to August 31, 1874, from foreign imports have been placed at 90,000,000 te 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. France, usually a large exporter of wheat, has been in the present crop year an importer to the extent of about 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, and Russia, that has had in some previous years as high as 60,000,000 bushels annual surplus wheat for export, had scarcely half that amount from her crop of 1873. The United States in 1873 had a wheat crop estimated by the Agricultural Department at 277,372,000 bushels, which probably, in fact, | exceeded 310,000,000 bushels, as about 88,000,000 bushels have already been exported, and 221,250,000 bushels are approximately re- quired for seeding 20,000,000 acres of wheat nd the food requirements of about 43,500,000, | fe peanut ra & : | not a superabundance. The domestic con- | the present population in the United States. The harvest prospects jn Europe for the cereal crops in 1874 are all that could be desired, and inthe United States and the New Do- | minion the cereal crops have more acreage and are qnite as promising as in 1873. France, Germany, Hungary, Russia, the Austrian and the Turkish provinces will in 1874 probably have their usual surplus, or more, for export. In the transition period from a season of scarcity to one of plenty there must of neces- | sity, in the last two months of the former and | the first two months ot the latter, be very con- siderable changes in the values of cereal prod- ucts, more especially in wheat and its prod- uct, flour, The United Kingdom is the central point from which these changes take their start. Her supplies are drawn irom all the exporting countries of the world, nearly filty per cent of which have usually been ob- tained from the ports of the Black and Azof seas and the Danube. In these ports the ‘ countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea have been strong competitors in the pur- chase of breadstuffs, and of 322 wheat-laden vessels which passed the Dardanelles from the | crop would seriously injure the prosperity | Britain average about 850,000 bushels per train between New York, Saratoge and Lake | oo ce anril to the th of June, 1874, 376 oid ar bier ey Ey | were destined for Mediterranean ports and i oe ss y | only 46 for the north of Europe; a. ie pic a Foon tig | latter divided between Great Britain, Bel- 5 ay EL gisnohthe line: oe ewadealers | gium, Holland and Norway. The continental es PR | countries of Northern Europe have also been ud others are notified to send in their orders | tito ith Great Britain in the bread- to the Hznatp office as early as possible. Sco acta a bias =F | stuffs markets of the world, and this is indi- the | | true, then neither history nor fiction shows a | From our ‘s this morning the probabilities | cated in the fact that, from May 1 to July 4, report: i the | are that the weather to-day will be clear and hot. Watt Srreer YesTerpar.—Stocks were generally quiet, the principal interest being Sn Lake Shore, and the market went off. Gold was 109] a 110. Turre 1s a Cats for more public baths. By all means let us have them. Flouting | Great Britain, and the exports from thence | baths can be built ata trifling cost, and the expense of keeping them up is inconsiderable. @leanliness is next to godliness, and the more our people bathe in the summer season the greater will be the advantage to the public health. Caicaco seems to bea fated city in regard to fire. The devouring element has again keized upon the unfortunate metropolis of the ‘West, and a quarter of a million dollars have become ashes. There must be something xadically wrong in the fire department of the Lake City, as on every occasion when a fire breaks out there appears to be nothing in that line sufficient to combat it Waat a Commentary upon early marriages is supplied by the telegraphic announcement from Fonda, in this State, yesterday: —‘‘Mrs. Avna Jefferson, fifteen years of age, com- mitted suicide last night by taking arsenic, The cause of the act was domestic trouble.” Poor child! a wite at fifteen and a self-mur- derer through domestic trouble. We pity Arna’s parents if it was with their consent that she became a wife. Tae Aprest or A GERMAN named Schwick, charged with having been concerned in ob- taining one hundred thousand thalers by forgery in Germany, will no doubt be regarded by the gentleman as a singular piece of ill Jack. Three months ago, when intelligence of his crime was cabled to onr police, the Steamers were closely watched, but without suecess. ‘The arrest was made on Monday in consequence of a charge of burglary lodged against the prisoner. This charge appears to have been unfounded, but Sch titied as the ‘‘wanted”’ forg home under the Extradition T ick was iden- A will be sent Many Gream Is a Henorvn if she is only » servant of all work. She must be a nseful isl to have in the honse. When she heard a wuspicious noise in the rear building of the Ahvnse in which she lives she did not scream or faint, but armed herself with a carving \enife and started to find out what was wrong. Bhe was rewarded by the discovery of a dis- guised fiend, who was coolly proceeding to pet fire to the dwelling, a tenement house cn Washington street. Mary seized the villain, and as he endeavored tochoke her she stabbed hhim in the cheek with the knife. He then Biscovered that Mary was too much for him pnd fied. It is to be hoped the insurance companies will make up a purse for the heroine. Tre Gus at Larenature in London afforded by the letter of our London corre- ppondent will be found of interest, The season thas been marked by the appearance of two dramatic poems of note, the one by Mr. Swin- burne and the other by Mr. Aubrey De Vere. Bwinburne's “Bothwell” of course takes the ead, and is spoken of as a remarkable work, slthough his Mary is drawn with a pencil guided more by pre; dice than truth. Mr, De WVere’s “Alexander the Great’’ is said to be so far above his previous works as to hove taken the reading world by surpris volume wf Aimée Desclée’s letters, edite! by Alexan- der Dumas, is curiously Jooked for, but has not yet made its appearance. Books of travel gre numerous this season, but the main inter- ast centres in Mr. MacGahan’s ‘Campaigning ‘pn the Oxus and the Khiva,’’ which excites _emaral attention and general approval, there have been exported to continental \ countries of Northern Europe, direct from | the United States, 5,261,526 bushels of | wheat against 11,594,748 bushels of wheat | to the United Kingdom. The conti- nental countries of Northern Europe | have also been buyers of breadstuffs of , to the Continent direct from April 28 to June { 20, inclusive, have been 811,656 bushels. These countries have also been Jarge pur- | chasers of wheat cargoes originally destined -to ports of call in Great Britain, and during | the week ended June 27 the Continent took | twelve cargoes arrived at ports of call, or | about 392,000 bushels, while Great Britain had the remaining thirteen cargoes, or about | 456,000 bushels, for ports of discharge in the United Kingdom. | precarious and uncertain, but this year France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean are nearly bare of stocks, and there is a strong probability of the continuance of the continental demand till near the close of August, when the new crop will begin to be available to a limited extent for consumption. | ‘The stocks of wheat in the ten principal | importing ports of the United Kingdom are, | in the aggregate, under the usual average. | There were in transit for that country, trom | all countries, exclusive of steamer shipments from American Atlantic ports, on June | 27, 8,383,528 bushels of wheat and 227,519 | barrels of flour, equal to 9,521,423 bushels of | wheat. The weekly consumpticn of wheat in | the United Kingdom approximately averages 3,384,000 bushels. grown wheat and imports of foreign for the eight weeks ended June 13 had been 5,755,400 bushels less than the consumption (at the rate of 2,384,000 bushels per week). During the eight weeks from July 5 to August 30 the consumption 27,072,000 bushels. The deliveries of home grown wheat in the Kingdom are now about 650,000 bushels per week, and in eight weeks, at the same rate, will be 7,680,000 bushels, which, added to the 9,521,423 bushels in transit, would give an aggregate supply of 17,201,423 bushels, leaving 9,810,577 bushels to be pro- | ‘The continental demand has been usually | The supply from home | will approximately aggregate | | for the like period. Accounts of the remain- | ing stock of wheat in farmers’ hands of the crop of 1873 in the West are conflicting, but the indications, taken from all the reports, are that they are considerably less than at this | date in 1873. | | If the delivery of the remaining crop of 1873 shall be less than last year and the ex- | ports shall be less, and if, at the same time, | the continental demand shall be continued, | dividing with Great Britain the cargoes ar- | riving at ports of call in the United Kingdom, and still further dividing the export move- ment from Atlantic seaboard ports, there may be a short period of deficient supplies. And, added to this, if there should be bad weather in *| the British Isles during the harvest apprecia- | tion in values could not but be temporarily the result, to be followed later on in the season bya very considerable decline. The middlemen holding the remaining surplus of wheat would be benefited by an vance in prices, while tor those in the bread- stuffs trade in general during the coming crop year of 1874-5 an advance in prices at the close of the old and the advent of the new of the trade during the coming crop year. There is more maize in the country thau | earlier in the year was supposed ; but there is | sumption is large, and the wants of Great week, and America this year being about | the only source of supply, with a move- | | ment of 1,000,000 bushels per week ; from seaboard ports for the British Isles, | steady prices may reasonably be expected, and | if less than this amount is shipped from sea- | board ports weekly higher prices will prevail, | | and if very much more than this weekly lower | prices will rule. The hay crop in the United | Kingdom is largely deficient, which will give | an active demand all the year for American | maize ut pretty full values. Southeastern | Europe will have very little maize for export during the remaining part of the year 1874. Mr. Beecher’s Dental. | The second thought of the pubhe mind | after reading the statement of Mr. Tilton is | one of relief. The anxiety in reference to this | \ affair has been so long continued, the interests | involved are so delicate and widespread, and | | the whole story itself is so much a comment | upon our domestic and religious life, that we | cannot exaggerate the impression it has made. | We can recall no one event since the murder of | Lincoln that has so moved the people as th's question whether Henry Ward Beecher is the basest of men. If the story of Mr. Tilton is character so dark. It is certainly a noble trait in our people that they have resolved to | stand by Mr. Beecher with the largest and | noblest charity and confidence, to believe that | he has done no wrong until the evidence comes in such a sbape as to leave no room for doubt. As we showed in our comments upon Mr. | Tilton’s statement, there was abundant reason | to doubt the correctness of his story upon in- | ternal evidence alone. We saw nothing incon- | | sistent with the theory that Mr. Beecher and | | Mrs. Tilton were innocent of the crime im- | puied to them apart from the mere aver- | | ments of Mr. Tilton. All that he shows in | | the way of documents and citations could be | | construed in another sense. In dealing with | | a man like Mr. Beecher, who had lived to age | and gray hairs, not only asa citizen of high character, but as a clergyman who has no | rival in-his generation, we were bound to so | scrutinize any charge against him. For it would be an evil day for the fame and useful- | ness of any citizen if the gathered honors of | long years of service and duty could be rudely blighted by the words of an enemy anda rival. This consideration governs the public opin- ion in reference to the whole matter. The statement we print from Mr. Beecher this morning was anticipated in the Heraup of yesterday. Mr. Beecher admits that there arose between Mr. Tilton and himself an | offence, which became the cause of unusual suffering, which he endeavored to explain and undo, and which grew into the tenor and bur- | den of his life. This offence was an interfer- | ence in the domestic affairs of Mr. Tilton, | an interferenca which was directly the | work of Mrs. Beecher and indirectly his own. ; The only question that will arise is this, Is | Exports of Wheat and Maize ana_ 5 to August 30 will exceed those of last year | could, no doubt, all be played at the same time in New York to crowded houses, There is in each a wife, not always like Cesar's, and that other character which too often fills tLe wife's place. Then there are husbands, not always as constant as husbands ought to be, and lovers notall Josephs. These charac- ters are taken through the usual scenes of lovemaking, quarrelling, flirting, suspicious visits, elopements and reconciliations. Out of these ingredients most of the new plays now delighting the Parisians are manufactured, and we have no doubt that Mr. Boucicault will make them as popular in New York as they are said to be at the gay capital. “Catherine Gaunt.” That is a weird, singular, significant letter which Mrs. Tilton wrote to her husband—‘My dear Theodore, to-day, through the ministry of Catherine Gaunt, a character of fiction, my eyes have been opened for the first time in my experience, so that I clearly see my sin. It was when I knew that I was loved to suffer it to grow to a passion. A virtuous woman should check instantly an absorbing love.”’ There is something penitent and noble in these words, but, withal, something so mawk- | ishly sentimental that we look for the explana- tion not to the woman who uttered them, but to the philosophy that was taught her and the atmosphere of her daily life. It is plain that she is no Hester Prynne, carrying in her breast | @ secret which the flaming scarlet letter on her | bosom only helped to conceal. Neither is she a Catherine Gaunt, resolute, wrong-headed, fn- natical, but pure. She is simply an emotional with a great preacher, to whom a husband's jealousy imputed the offence of a Dimmes- it grieves us to say this, she isthe feeble coun- terpart of both these unfortunate heroines, and stands to-day the justification of fictions which wel] nigh drove the world mad with | their unrealities. A study of Charles Reade’s novel reveals the dual life of the devout woman floundering be- tween her strong love of her Church and her unconscious Jove of her priest. It is a singu- larly well drawn picture which the novelist paints. Father Francis, a coarse and burly ecelesiastic, yielded place to Brother Leonard, who ‘looked and moved like a being who had come down from some higher sphere to pay the world a very little visit.” Mrs. Gaunt at first could make nothing of him and com- plained to her husband that he was a “spirit- ual machine ;”’ while that genial gentleman answered, ‘‘Well, Iam of your mind; he is old blade, Francis. But why so many words, Kate? You don’t use to bite twice at a cherry; if the milksop is not to your taste But Brother Leonard was really a great preacher, and the first time she heard him Mrs. Gaunt ‘sat thrilled, enraptured, melted.’’ She soon became the priest’s Ma- donna, filling his rooms with flowers when he was absent and caring for him in secret. And he, in turn, preached only for her. She could not only understand his sermons, but the occult sympathy between them told her he was preaching to her and that she was part of his inspiration. Butall the time something whispered to her heart that perhaps Leonard admired her more than was safe or prudent. The spell was on her, however, and it was not easy to foresee the real danger. His fervent nation and her religious aspirations. From an interest in the preaching it was only a step to an interest in the preacher; but in all things she ual guide. He was so devout that she forgave him for keeping her glove, which he picked up in the wood, and for painting her portrait for his own delectation. She even obeyed him when he told her to dismiss her Protes- tant servants and employ Catholics in their of this to her husband, and he, as a matter of course, was furious. She failed to understand the road she had taken. Ina short time she had become so zealous in good works that she withdrew from society, surrendered her judg- took an interest in her husband or her hus- band’s affairs. There was separation and grief, and after much suffering that reconcili- ation which is necessary to give a novela | happy ending. The story, we begin to suspect, is not an the offence grave enough to have justified the _ Mr. Moulton? We can probably answer this | | question when we remember the peculiar | quality of Mr. Beecher's mind, his exuberant | and exiggerated rhetoric, his intense nature, | marked with all the old Hebrew fervor and pession of speech, It is hard for the cool observer to see in the | offence which Mr. Beecher admits | | | the cause for such a letteras the one addressed | | to Mr. Moulton. And it would, we admit, be | practically impossible to permit such a con- | struction were it not that it is confirmed in | | every way by the conduct of Mr. Tilton before { morbid and passionate letters addressed to | character of fiction, as Mrs, uncommon one. Here was a woman, albeit a Tilton says, who never thought to wrong her husband; but | the devotion she owed him as a wife she per- priest, but allowed her hnsband to go trom her in the blindness of her own folly and devo- tion. ‘The sin was Leonard’s,’’ said Father Francis to the erring woman, “but the fault was yours.’ ‘That this fault was Mrs, Tiiton’s she admits in her remarkable letter; that the graver sin was Mr. Beecher’s seems the deduction of his statement which we print this morning. That there was no crime is | vided from further exports from foreign coun- | 4,6 publication of his statement. Mr. Tilton’s | now plain enough. The Brooklyn story is the tries. This latter amount will, however, be increased pn unknown quantity, or what | the continental demand upon cargoes at ports of cail may be in the mean time. ‘The exports from seaboard Atlantie ports for the four we er ded July 4 have been 166 of wheat, against 1¢ ‘0 bushe vious four wee weeks of 17,41 lour and 7,797,669 bushels barrels of flour and wheat during the pre- or an aggregate in eight 497 bushels for Enrope, in- eluding about one-third of it for the Conti- nent, The receipts of wheat at lake ports have been diminished, but are still Jarger than in 1873. In the latter year the receipts of wheat at Jake ports from Jul ve, aggregated 12 to August 30, in- the same time the receipts at Atlantic seaboard ports were 8,086,326 bushels, and the exports therefrom were 7,180 bushels of ‘The visible supply of wheat Bf including stocks in granary at the princ on val points of accumulation, at like and seaboard ports and in transit on the lakes, the N York nd by was 6,6) bushels, ainst = 5 bushels at the date 1873. ‘The receipts of whent seaboard porta for the two weeks following that ended July 11 will be small, and with the large draughts that have been made on the wheat crop of | 1873 it is not probable that the deliveries of rail, s68 45,459 canals corresponding im at whole course, as shown in a hundred instances | before this publication, cau only be under- | stood upon the theory that he believed in the purity of his wife, and that My. Beecher had | been guilty of an offence and not a crime. | To this we now add finally the testimony of | Mr. Beecher himself. He telis us that he will | answer to the committee in detail every | charge made against him. For the present he | denies the statements of Mr. Tilton as ‘‘abso- lately fals: “To every staterment,’’ he con- tinues, ‘which connects me dishonorably with Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, or which in any | wise would impugn the honor and purity of | this beloved Christian woman, [ give the most explicit, comprehensive and solemn denial.”’ The French Drama. Onr Po letter to-day holds out a brilliant promise of new sensational dramas at our theatres next winter, especially the great adapter himself is on his way to New York. ‘There are new pieces at nearly all the Paris | theat and the racy sketch of the several plots given by our correspondeut shows that they are of a character to suit our own boards | and to mest the enrrent ot events in real life on this side of the Atlantic. To he sure there seers to be something of a sameness in the main incidents of the plays, but then the standard properties of the French drama are capable of being placed in so many different shapes, each attractive to modern playgoers, story of Catherine Gaunt over again, only the Plymouth pastor was no silly ecclesiastic, as the novelist calls the other, and it hardly priestly in him to take a pleasure in the ‘paternal affection’? which is now the grava- men of the charge against him. This, we are inclined to think, is the whole story which Mr. ‘Tilton’s heated imagination has distorted into a terrible crime, and the lesson to be learned from it is in that deduction which stands ont with such startling prominence in Mrs. ‘Tilton’s letter—a virtuous woman should check instantly an absorbing love. Commutation of Dockray’s Sentence, The Sponish anthe sense of awakening wis es have displayed a om in modifying the | severe sentence of the court martial on Mr. For the ermme of having visited the | Dockray. insurgent camp ac to be shot, but th rt martial sentenced him government of Madrid has wl of interposed, and ix going before a shooting party Mr. Dockray will be con. signed to the companionship of convicts for ten years. Tf it were not for the hope that even this re sentence may be relaxed it might be questioned whether or not the extreme pen- alty would not have been the more merciful. But we hope thata light is breaking on the Spanish authorities in Cuba which shows them Low useless savage acts of repression are in commanding even the respect of the | people, Mr, Dockray bas many powerful woman, given to rhapsodies, who fell in love | dale or a Brother Leonard. And yet, much as \ very poor company compared with that jovial | | expended. Butin a law passed in 1873, | provided that the Board of Apportionment ‘may,"’ from time to time, “by the asffirma- give him the sack, and be damned to him.” | Breadstuffs Question=American | Wheat at seaboard ports this year from July | that the pieces enumerated ix. our letter | friends in this country, and we would not be | surprised if they used their influence to such | good effect that within a very short period Mr. Dockray will be set finally at liberty. There are no really serious charges against him. His fault has been one of lack of dis- cretion, and we have no doubt the Captain i | | ment sufficient expiation of Mr. Dockray's j Yashness in visiting the rebel camp merely | from a spirit of adventure. | Corporation Opinions—“There Ain't Nothing Like ’Em Affoat or Ashore.” The legal opinions of the Assistant Counsel | tothe Corporation appear to be better cul- | culated to accommodate the views of those at whose request they are manufactured than | to stand the test of law. The famous | Police Commissioner opinion may forfeit | Mayor Havemeyer his place, and has, at all events, cost him what little reputation re- | mained to him before his unfortunate and futile attempt to force the convicted Com- | missioners back into their old positions. | Nevertheless, it no doubt pleased the Mayor | | at the time it was delivered, and, probably, | that is all it was intended to accomplish. In- | deed, these legal opinions on municipal affairs are generally of the Bunsby order. It | would be awkward nowadays for the captain of the municipal ship to be without his oraclo. | And it is surprising how closely our modern Bunsbys come up to the original both in the | adaptability and profundity of their opinions. “Bunsby,” sald Captain Cuttle, striking home at once, “here you are: a manof mind and @ man as | Can give an opinion.” * * * The voice within him said of its own accord, and quite independent of vimself, as if he Were possessed by a gruff spirit:— ““My name’s Jack Bunsby.”” * * * “Whereby,’ proceeded the volce, “why not? Ifso, what odds? Can any man say other- wise? No! Awast, then!’ this point the voice stopped and rested, It then procecded very slowly thus:— “Do I believe that this here Son and Heir’s gone | down, my lads ¢ MAHAns DoT say sof Which? | If a skipper stands out Sen’ George’s channel, | Making for the Downs, what’s right ahead of him? | The Goodwins, He isn’s forced to run upon the | Goodwins, but he may. The bearings ot this ob- | serwation jays in the application on it, That ain’t | Ro part ot my duty. Awast, then, keep a bright | look-out tor’ard, and good luck to you.” The last opinion from the Assistant Corpo- ration Counsel is on the powers of the Board of Apportionment, and the right of the Park | Department to pay salaries out of the pro- ceeds of bonds issued for park improvements and added to the funded debt of the city. The Board of Apportionment, we are told, has the | power to determine how much money raised | by taxation shall be annually expended for the | | public business of the city, but has no con- | cern with the shall be raised by the issue of bonds author- ized by special acts of the Legislature, nor with the question how such money shall be known as the New York City Charter, it is | General will consider a few months’ imprison- | When 1t had pursued its train of argument to | question of how much money | naturally take the ladies’ part, and be must indeed lack debating power if he cannot prove that there is more quickness of perception and quite as much reasoning power among large numbers of highly educated | ladies than many gentlemen students cav make boast of. One of the chief advan tages of the Educational Association is the opportunity afforded to those directly interested in the subject of higher education to meet and exchange views. The result cannot fail to be beneficial to the cause of education, | ard we hopo that teachers of prominence in | the community will examine without passion | every side of this most important question, | and endeavor to solve it in the interest of | | humanity. i} | “ | The Yachting Season—Shall It Have ® Brilliant Closet There has been less activity in yachting thie season than for somo years previously. The commercial and financial disturbances of last fall have had their effect in that direction as well as in others, and the Juno regattas of our home clubs, while pleasant enough and suc- cessful in a certain sense, were not largely ate tended. It is to be regretted that the appoint ments for the cruises are made so near to each other as to conduce to a slim attendance. Several of our yachtsmen who are members both of the New York and Brooklyn clubs would accompany both fleets if the cruises were sufficiently far apart to render it possible or converient for them to do so. The Brooke lyn Yacht Club rendezvoused yesterday at Glen Cove, and start on their cruise to-day. | The New York Yacht Club will rendezvous at | Glen Cove on August 4, and the cruise of the | Atlantic Yacht Club is also fixed for the early | part of August. The Eastern Yacht Club, of Boston, will rendezvous at Holmes’ Hole on * August 4, and will arrive at Newport about the same time with the New York Yacht Club. The meeting of the two clubs will be made the occasion of some interesting races, in which the merits of the New York and Boston yachts will be tested. This will be the event of the present season, and as many yachts belonging te other clubs will doubtless visit Newport at the same time, in order to witness or take part in the races, there is likely to be a gathering at brilliant as those seen at Cowes during the English regattas. A variety of contests is con- | templated, including a steam yacht race and a | Corinthinn race, from which professional | sailors are excluded, and the owners and their friends are captain and all hands. The Atlan- | tie Yacht Club would add to the success of the event and find a hearty welcome if they should so arrange their programme as to visit New- port at the same time as the New York and Eastern clubs. The Newport season will then | be at its height, and a brilliant series of races, | shared in by some of our best yachts, will do much to redeem the dulness of the present eloquence had appealed at once to her imagi- | treated him simply as a holy man, her spirit- | ment to her spiritual director, and no longer | tive vote of three members’ authorize the | issue of the whole or any portion of any stock |or bonds which are by law author- {ized to be issued. This seems | conflict with the statement of the ‘‘opinion’’ | that the Board of Apportionment has no con- cern with the question of how much money shall be raised by the issue of bonds author- ized by law. Indeed, such bonds cannot be issued at all without the assenting vote of a majority of the Board. The charter also pro- vides that the estimate to be made by the | Board of Apportionment for taxation shall in- clude ‘‘the amounts required to pay the ex- peuses of conducting the public business of | branch thereof’’ for the ensuing fiscal year, andthe departments are required to send in their own estimates in detail as a basis for the work of the Board, and to state therein the salaries of every one of their officers, clerks, employés and subordinates. This | would seem to all minds not so profound as | that of the oracular Bunsby to mean that the | ordinary expenses of conducting the city gov- | | ernment, including all salaries of every descrip- places. Busy and malicious tongues told part | tion, shall be passed upon by the Board of | | Apportionment and paid out of the year's | taxation. The “opinion,” relating to the Department of Docks, in which all the expenses are paid out of the proceeds of bonds, and warts to know why the same rule should not apply to the Park Department? | Can any | “Why not? If so, what odds? man say otherwise? No! Awast, then!” But the Dock law expressly provides that “the expenses and compensation of said Board, its rents, the compensation of its ap- | se pointees, and all other expenses and disbursements necessarily | Shall be paid out of the proceeds of the bonds | mitted to be absorbed by another, and not | | only became the defender of the poor, silly authorized by the law to be issued. This very fact proves that the laws authorizing the issue of bonds for construction and improvement of the parks, which do not contain any such provisions, are not intended to authorize the payment of salaries out of the proceeds of such bonds; otherwise they would have been as exphcit in their provisions to that effect as is | the law in relation to the Dock Department. Then there is another little provision of the | charter which restricts the aggregate expenses | for salaries, &c., in every department to the amounts appropriated by the Board of Appor- tionment. It is true the “opinion’’ disposes | of this by stating that it relates only to the amounts to be raised by taxation, and does not prevent an increase in the aggregate ses, provided the money to meet such is raised by bonds. But this argu- ment is not worth a reply, ‘The bearings of this obserwation lays in the application on it. That ain't no part of my duty. Awast, then, keop a bright look out for’ard, and good luck to you."’ Teachers in Council, The annual meeting of the National Educa- tion Association, to be held in Detroit in August, promises to be exceedingly interesting. in | the city ard county in each department and | however, quotes the law | incurred in | carrying out the said provisions of this act,’ ; season and to give a promise of greater active ity and interest in yachting next year. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Eating clams with the fingers is “the thing” on Na:ragansett shore. Count Bellegarde, of Austria, has apartments ag the Brevoort House. Count de Paris has at last published bis history of the American war. | Captain Hains, of the steamship Abyssinia, is registered at the New York Hotel. Ex-Congressman William H. Upson, of Obto, 19 Staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lieutenant Governor John C. siding at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major James Lewis, of the United States Marine Corps, is quartered at the Hoffman House. Mr. J. M. Hinds, United States Consul General at Rio Janeiro, ts sojonroing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. U.S, Grant is a colored Virginia constable, but he never writes financial memoranda to the col- ored Joneses, Mr. J. H. Devereux, President o/ the Atlantic and | Great Western Railway Cumpany, is at the St. | Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Dewitt C. Ellis, Superiutendent of the Bank Department, arrived from Albany last evening at | the Metropolitan Hotel. | The Secretary of War willleave Washington on | Saturday for New London, Conn., where his family | are spending the summer, It is sald the new converts at Bald Mountain have gone back to card playing since the volcano | proved a failure. Two actors in this city went out to fight 2 dueb the other day, but they got sober before reaching the duelling ground, On Vriday several genticmen, offenders agoinss society, will be presented toa rope. ‘The Sheri will conduct the ceremony. | When Agnes Strickland died the other day the | only thing said about her was that s! as “well known as the writer of numerous works.” Dr. Rust is President and A, G, Steal a professor a Kentucky femaie college, but Rust doth not upt nor Steal break through and thieve. | The question in Chicago 1s whether the last fire ; Was caused by the calf of Mrs, O'Leary's cow of | the stupidity of Bonner, of the Fire Department. The widow of Congressman Mellish has been ‘appointed a counter in the Currency Division of the Treasury Department, at a salary of $900 @ year, The editor of the Arizona Miner is foreman of a hand engine, Justice of the Peace, Register of Deeds, City Clerk and the best Indian fighter in the county. An English tourist, who was present at the Sara toga regatta, says that rowtog in this country is getting along swimmingly. He doubtless re- Jerred to our American water “fouls,” A paper out West thinks there are “séme men | in Congress fully as smart as Henry Clay. Tne | only trouble ts that those who are not smart have a better way of showing it than those who are. The hotel keepers and sojourners at Atlantic City are expecting the arrival of the President on saturday, to remain with them several days, Blessed are they for they expect but little, and it shall be Grant-ed, Harper's Weekly has a picture of the boat race showing the position of each crew when the Columbia touched the finishing line, and showing the HERALD news boat in advance of all the con- testauts, There could be no fitter illustration of the HERALD's news facilities, which always keep a little ahead of all competitors, Two years ago the Turkish government wanted | to economize in its salary list and not reduce the salartes; so it declared, with pleasant innocence of the result, that a year should consist of fifteen Robinson is re months, and the pay for a year be for that period The rival systems of education will be brought | ana go tt would have patd jor five soars with four fairly under discussion by men having pri | years’ sa Now it f¥ discovered Uhat this pun cal acquaintance with the difficulties of suit- | was tavented by Louis X1V., whi pati! his pensions ing the higher education to the different | Hi ced a min cunt Of we capacities of the stndents, ‘The infiue A paragraph fas been in cireulation to the ¢ sex in education will be fairly diseus: the chiet supporters of the ri » of of theories as to women will be brought Dr. Clarke, of Boston, whose book rebutting the idea of equality between the sexes bronght down on him the anger of the champions of the fair sex, will devote himself to upholding the existing sys- tem as best calculated to secure the happiness and well-being of mankind. Professor Orton, | ae the representative of Vassar College, will the mental ft pow to face. nna 6. Dtekinson te } that Miss A ofgomg to Burope, me summer | ALSwampseott; that she history 0 | her tif and experiences for publication, We have authority for the statement that Miss Dickinsor has not given up her intention of song abvoad hut is ¢ A by the necessity of finishing a hoot for which she is under a contract, ‘This bogk 1s tt | no sense “a story of ber life’ but a chronicle o certain experiences and adventures in ver leciut ing tours, amusing and otherwise, with a recore of ohe summer spent in California and another Ub | Colorado,